pasteldream

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by pasteldream 11mo ago
I’m not sure why witx’s comment was downvoted. This is absolutely the standard usage in math and computer science.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Yes. I’m not sure how slow it is in Julia, but pure functional languages do tend to generate more garbage for this reason. Hopefully the compiler can optimize it away in simple cases. Edit: It’s not deepcopying the whole struct, just the pa
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
I think we’re talking past each other. Lenses serve many purposes. All I’m saying is that in practice, the most common role they fulfil is to act as a counterpart for mutable references in contexts where you want or need immutability. Can t
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Yeah, but I’m saying that in 90% of the cases where a functional program would use lenses, the corresponding imperative program would just use references.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
> Your natural choice in the "OOP style" is to write a lot of boiler plate to point to each different field you want to get/set. Your natural alternative to lenses in imperative languages is usually to just store a referen
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Immutability gives you persistence, which can be practically useful. It’s not just fear.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Yeah, sorry, I realized after I commented.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
But what’s the benefit of this approach? It seems needlessly expensive, both in terms of computational overhead (walking up and down the state tree) and how much more code it requires. I guess you gain persistence of your entire app’s state
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
You know, I do not actually know that a website had ads before clicking on a link to it; I would be happy to only visit websites without ads. It’s scummy to shove ads in my face without at least warning me and giving me a chance to leave, I
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Imagine asking the browser on my hardware to do things I don’t want it to do, and acting shocked when I tell it not to.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Can you point me to one of these reviews of case reports? As it is, your reply is too vague to be helpful.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
How much do advertisers pay per customer, and where can I find this analysis?
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
It’s not a completely arbitrary framing. It’s a consequence of other beliefs (ethical beliefs, beliefs about what you can or should tolerate, etc.), which are ultimately arbitrary, but it is not in and of itself arbitrary.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
But naturally, won’t there be people who can’t get to a point where life is okay? Isn’t it deeply unethical to force them to live?
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Yes.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
I’m sorry Lifeline did that to you. I believe that if society actually wants people to open up about their problems and seek help, it can’t pull this sort of shit on them.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
If you accept that “the world and life aren’t particularly pleasant things”, why do you want to prevent suicide?
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
> The reason is that they can enable people to take action on their suicidal feelings, before their suicidal feelings are fixed by the treatment. I see that explanation for the increased suicide risk caused by antidepressants a lot, but
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Agreed - blue noise dithering is very commonly used in computer graphics because it’s cheap and great, but it might be worth mentioning that it’s a kind of ordered dithering, which is mentioned in the article. Christoph Peters’s free blue n
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Sometimes repetition serves a purpose, and sometimes it doesn’t.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
> people are far kinder than you may think Not everyone has this same experience of the world. People are harsh, and how much grace they give you has more to do with who you are than what you say. That aside, the worst problem with LLM-g
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Perhaps they disagree with the idea that it’s an addiction or that it’s a problem with screens in particular, rather than a problem with people not being able to or not knowing how to spend their free time in other ways.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
One easy way to create such a situation is to use bwrap without --dev.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Reminds me of Falso. https://inutile.club/estatis/falso/
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
reference for the unaware: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
It links to a commit; the removed deps are by GitHub user ljharb.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
> The one thing I never understood about these warnings is how they don't run afoul of libel laws. I’m not a lawyer, but this hasn’t ever been taken to court, has it? It might qualify as libel.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
Why did they make it like that? I assume accordion makers were aware of the convenience of the harmonic table layout, and had good reasons for choosing something else.
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by pasteldream 11mo ago
> the defects of this tuning method became evident and the more flexible “well-tempered” tuning scheme was devised. This ensures that the ratio of pitch between every two adjacent notes is precisely the same. The author seems to have con